Overcheck bridle-bit



(No Model.)

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OVERGHEOK BRIDLE BIT.

Patented Aug. 21,1888.

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GRIT DAVIS, OF HARRODSBUBG, KENTUCKY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,268, dated August 21 1888.

Application filed June 9, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GRIT DAVIS,0f Harrodsburg, in the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Overcheck-Bits, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved overcheck-bit as applied to a horse, and Fig. 2 a view of the same detached.

My device relates to an improvement in overcheck-bits; and it consists in a curved bit having forwardly-projecting arms disposed at the U sides of the muzzle, to which the overeheck is attached, while a strap attached to the up per part of the bit extends over the muzzle, having centrally astrap extending up the face of the animal and joined to the bridle at the top of the head. The device is especially designed to be applied to trotters and other fastdriving animals, and is to prevent the horse from choking itself when it presses its jaws back against its neck by compelling it to keep its head up, all of which will now be fully set forth in detail.

In the accompanying drawings,Arepresents a curved bit having the curve A downwardly instead of up, provided at the sides with the bars B. These bars are provided at their up per ends with openings 0, to which the muz zle-strap D is attached. This strap D is pro vided with a buckle, so as to be adjustable as desired. The lower ends of the bar 13 are upturned, as shown at E, and are also provided with openings F, to which the forward ends of the overchecks G are attached. These over- Serial No. 240,772. (No model.)

checks are of the ordinary kind and extend back over the head of the animal.

To the forward central part of the muzzle a strap, H, is secured, extending up the face of the animal, and is secured at its upper end to the bridle. The strap H has no direct connection with the overcheck G, but, on the other hand, is only designed to be used in retaining the muzzle-strap D and bit A in position. As will be noticed, this bit is designed to be used in connection with the regular driving-bit. (Not shown in the drawings.) The face-strap H is designed to belengthened and shortened, so that the overeheek-bit may be located just below the regular driving-bit,and as the curve A of the overcheelrbit curves downwardly it will not interfere with the regular drivingbit.

What I claim is 1. An overcheek-bit having side bars,B,with forwardly-projecting arms E, and overchecks G, attached to the forward ends of said arms, and the muzzle-strap D, attached to the upper part of the bit, and the face-strap H, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination of the bit A, having the downturned part A, the forwardly-disposed arms E, and overchecks G, with the muzzle strap D and face-straps H, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing Ihave hereunto set my hand, this 15th day of February, 1887, in the presence of two witnesses.

GRIT DAVIS.

\Vitnesses:

O. D. ZERBE, ROBERT RAMSEY. 

